The Viking Sax 

Fun term fact for the day: It's proper name is Seax, or scramaseax or scramsax in disambiguation, the term Sax is more old english and in Scandinavian languages it means scissors.

I need to get one of this for those bad area bar gigs. If I'ma be a sax player, may as well be a sax wielder

That would be a must have! Gorgeous blade! Love me some Cold Steel!! Own almost 70 pieces and there's a reason I review them more than anything else!!! In Lynn we trust!!

If a Bowie knife isn’t enough then a Viking short sword definitely will be 😆

Cold Steel straight up the one brand with affordable prices and stupid sharp, strong products. ❄️ 🗡

Epic sax, man!

This Sax is so beautifull! 😍

1:07 cut was unreal 😶

I like it. I will get one once they become available in Norway.

Beautiful, but a bit out of my price range. Would love to see a practical one in Carbon V!

Sax profile in the Voyager XL series please !

Now this is a knife

No bees were harmed in the making of this video

Butcher: “How would you like it cut?” Cold Steel: “Yes.”

Time to loot and pillage some monasteries.

Hello Cold Steel, theres this really WHOLESOME and FAMILY FRIENDLY streamer called Bratasha Branners that is a HUGE fan of Cold Steel Products and Hog slicing, its their 18th birthday today and they would absolutely LOVE it if you could sponsor them!

I really enjoyed the video. I noticed it was 339 lights and 6 dislikes. I think those dislikes don't know nothing about a knife besides a butter knife. They're butterheads.

Beautiful

hard test the French saber 1815 Please

Chieftan Sax would be a great low cost alternative for those who can't afford the bigger saxes...

My wallet is crying right now. LOL

Nothing like some hot sax

I own more coldsteel stuff then any other blade company. I really never leave my house without a coldsteel knive usually 2. A vaquero in my front pocket an a broken skull in my back pocket. You guys are great.

Lynn is the God of knife making

A fine blade!

That type of blade was more common among saxons than Scandinavian tribes.

That hit the spot. Need to go look at getting another hawk or two next week.

I love the handle.❤️

Seax Machete would be cool.. Oh wait CS did make one before but it was more rounded shape at the point ..

Look at the bowie blade design....😉 It is like an old viking blade....

I gotta get one

Practice safe sax!

That looks more like a Bowie then a sax

Not bad ... not bad. I wish Cold Steel would bring back the 9" Kukri. I have the black but I would really like a few in regular steel with a nice finish.

this thing is badass!

I think I just found the perfect knife company!!!

Beautiful craftsmanship and nicely done The only thing I would change is the blade ricasso. Scandinavian seaxes Did not have that type of blade grinds . Cheers 🍻

I wish I could afford one of these.

Nooooo the bees needed that meat... for some reason.

A few years ago I saw an article in Blade or something about a guy that made custom broken back Seax knives. They were wonderful. Like a Wharncliffe on meth and PCP. I have full faith that Cold Steel can make a Broken Back Seax in AUS 10 A or BD 1 in a folder platform. I know Condor Knives does an Otzi knife. Make a Seax folder Demko with better tip strength.

Shit... I want one.

Never saw a full view of the blade

Beautiful blade. That watermelon wedging was almost unnatural 👏

Sweeeet!

I always wondered at what angle you sharpen your swords at coldsteel.

I'm a Saxon, my people are literally named after that knife, so I think it's a bit rich of Cold Steel to name it a ”viking” sax.

Now please get distal taper on your 1796 and your polish sabre.

Hey cold steel! fan here, with a suggestion for a new product. There is a popular weapon called a scythe that is used for grass cutting. I think it would sell well from purely a Badass perspective to look like a grim reaper! ^-^ Also cutting grass is very cool with it, it handy.

I actually thought it was a typo. The Vikings Ax. 😳

I believe the proper name is Seax or scramaseax.

Good weapon but I like to see one made with the black coating like the Gladius & other swords & machetes. Extend the life of the blade a bit.

Is it supposed to be shaped like that?

It's refreshing to see a broken back English seax blade with some good asymmetric geometry and not just the typical straight bar with a short diagonally cut tip "seax". HOWEVER. This is still not more than a fantasy seax. There's so much wrong in this so called "historically accurate" piece. First: The blade itself: There's pretty much NOTHING viking about the English and Germanic "Broken-back-seaxes". The war-knives found in scandinavia and the baltic areas were more towards the longer, slimmer profiles with short simplistic handles, but often VERY decorative scabbards. Also the patternweld (aka damascus) of this blade is absolutely not the type of patternweld you would see on a seax of this type. The combination of bloomery iron and shear steel would be purified separately, patternwelded in separate rods and then combined with the purest high carbon rod at the edge end of the billet. This was done both in very simple combinations for some blades (some being simple purified shearsteel) and extremely intricate and decorative for others. This bold "random" pattern would not have been seen anywhere at the time. Second: There's no historical finds with a plunge grind. This is a minor point for some, but its a prominent theme for knives all the way back to the migration era up to even later medieval times that he blades had one single bevel, from the spine to the edge, evenly over both blade and tang, without plunge grind. Third: A more obvious point. No English or Germanic seax has been found with sword fittings. This kind of guard and pommel has NOTHING to do with these knifes. The few fittings found has been extremely minimalistic, barely more than a bolster and buttcap. Fourth and last: All handles that has still been attached to the English and Germanic "Broken back" blades (which are rare) has been much longer than a typical knife handle. At least 30 to 45% of the overall length of the knife. There are several theories on why that is, and as a practitioner of "practical archeology" and a reenactment fighter, I can absolutely find several handy things in it being so long. They were also more often than not very simplistic. With these points out of the way, I'm gonna repeat the biggest misconception about these knives. They are NOT viking knives. Sure they existed in the same era as the vikings, but they were carried by English and Germanic mid European tribes, not the Scandinavian people. If you want a good example of what a "Viking" seax could look like, here's an example. www.deviantart.com/danogambler/art/The-Female-Warrior-s-Knife-840980131 And yes, of course there would be the few that adopted foreign weaponry and collected curiosities, and craftsmen that took inspiration from wares brought from abroad, but that doesn't make it typical of their culture. There. Rant over. Seaxes are a VERY interesting and nuanced topic, but also one of the most misunderstood. If you have a big interest for these knives and weapons, I can recommend taking a peek at "The Seax Files" on Facebook. It's a group dedicated on discussion, observation, and of course the craft and making and literature regarding this topic. Edit: I know there are several single edged swords found in Scandinavia and even a long broken back "sword like" knife found in Norway. For the first, the swords are just that - swords. And the swordlike broken back knife with sword fittings has at several occasions been identified as a unique object, where the blade has most likely been imported and later mounted with swordlike fittings. Also, it does not in any way look like the knife in this video.

Cold steel: Cost of and if you deliver to England UK mainland? please and thank you..

Looks great but is it full tang or a rats tail..

No is a big bowie...the cut side is wrong

you missed an oppertunity to use epic sax music for this video...

What's about the bees?

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Seax

Daora

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Hey guys don't bother with the viking sword. I pulled mine apart and it has a welded tang

Fruit Ninja 😁

Out of stock 🙄 Bummer

ugly handle IMO. Cuts well though.

Great knife but looks more like a bowie than a seax. Tip isn't supposed to curve like that.

Beautiful

Beautiful

Sweet

I like that I can write a comment and people like it

Simply beautiful...

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